Mythimna alopecuri

Last updated

Mythimna alopecuri
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Mythimna
Species:
M. alopecuri
Binomial name
Mythimna alopecuri
(Boisduval, 1840)
Synonyms
  • Leucania alopecuriBoisduval, 1840
  • Sideridis scirpi syriacaOsthelder, 1933
  • Aletia alopecuri

Mythimna alopecuri is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. [1] It is found in southern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus region, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, the European part of southern Russia, Ukraine, [2] Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

Adults are on wing from April to May and from September to October. There are two generations per year.

The larvae probably feed on various Gramineae species.

Related Research Articles

<i>Mythimna ferrago</i> Species of moth

Mythimna ferrago, the clay, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is distributed throughout Europe and is also found in Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, Turkestan, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia and the western parts of temperate North Asia. Also Tibet.

<i>Mythimna impura</i> Species of moth

Mythimna impura, the smoky wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1808. It is distributed throughout most of the Palearctic realm from Ireland in the west of Europe east to the Caucasus, Turkey, Syria, Kazakhstan, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, then Japan. In Europe it is found from the Arctic Circle to Spain and Italy in the south, as well as in the northern regions of Greece.

<i>Mythimna pallens</i> Species of moth

Mythimna pallens, the common wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae distributed throughout the Palearctic realm from Ireland in the west, through Europe to Central Asia and Amur to the Kuriles in the east. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

<i>Mythimna</i> (moth) Genus of moths

Mythimna is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.

<i>Mythimna albipuncta</i> Species of moth

Mythimna albipuncta, the white-point, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is distributed throughout Europe and one subspecies is found in Tunisia. It is also found in Asia Minor, Armenia, and Iran, and the northeastern United States.

<i>Mythimna l-album</i> Species of moth

Mythimna l-album, the L-album wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia and in the Levant, then east across the Palearctic to Central Asia. It is not found in the far north of the Arabian Peninsula. The limit in the north varies. It occurs on the northern edge of the range as a migrant. From southern England, then Denmark and southern Scandinavia, the north limit cuts across the Baltic Sea across the Baltic states then south of Moscow to the Urals.

<i>Mythimna unipuncta</i> Species of moth

Mythimna unipuncta, the true armyworm moth, white-speck moth, common armyworm or rice armyworm, is a nocturnal agricultural pest belonging to the family Noctuidae. This moth is also commonly referred to by the scientific name Pseudaletia unipuncta. The species was first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809. Mythimna unipuncta is found in the Americas and in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia. Its original distribution is North and South America. It has been introduced to other places from there. They are known as armyworms because the caterpillars move in lines as a massive group, like an army, from field to field, damaging crops.

<i>Mythimna vitellina</i> Species of moth

Mythimna vitellina, the delicate, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1808. It is mainly distributed throughout southern Europe and the southern part of eastern Europe. It is also found far less commonly further north in Europe. Also in North Africa, the Near East and Middle East, Central Asia and western China.

<i>Mythimna pudorina</i> Species of moth

Mythimna pudorina, the striped wainscot, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm. Also Armenia, Asia Minor and eastern Siberia.

<i>Mythimna straminea</i> Species of moth

Mythimna straminea, the southern wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825. It is found in the western parts of the Palearctic realm, including Morocco, Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Israel, and Lebanon.

<i>Mythimna separata</i> Species of moth

Mythimna separata, the northern armyworm, oriental armyworm or rice ear-cutting caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in China, Japan, South-east Asia, India, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and some Pacific islands. It is one of the major pests of maize in Asia. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1865.

<i>Mythimna turca</i> Species of moth

Mythimna turca, the double line, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. It is found in Europe. The eastern expansion extends through northern Asia and central Asia to northern China, Korea and Japan. It rises to a height of about 700 metres in the Alps.

<i>Mythimna conigera</i> Species of moth

Mythimna conigera, the brown-line bright-eye, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

<i>Mythimna favicolor</i> Species of moth

Mythimna favicolor, or Mathew's wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Charles Golding Barrett in 1896. It is found in Europe. The species is sometimes treated as a subspecies of Mythimna pallens, the common wainscot.

<i>Mythimna litoralis</i> Species of moth

Mythimna litoralis, the shore wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

<i>Mythimna congrua</i> Species of moth

Mythimna congrua is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae.

<i>Mythimna sicula</i> Species of moth

Mythimna sicula is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Morocco to Libya, central and southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Iran and Turkmenistan.

<i>Mythimna riparia</i> Species of moth

Mythimna riparia is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Morocco, southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Syria and Turkmenistan.

<i>Mythimna prominens</i> Species of moth

Mythimna prominens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found on Malta and in Greece, France, the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Outside of Europe, it is found in Morocco, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Réunion, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

<i>Mythimna anderreggii</i> Species of moth

Mythimna anderreggii is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in the mountains of Europe. It is also present in the northern Caucasus, the Gissar Range, the Pamir mountains and the Tian Shan mountains.

References

  1. Bros de Puechredon, Emmanuel (1955). "Mythimna alopecuri Bsd. f. Syriaca Osth à Digne (Lép. Phal.)". Publications de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 24 (4): 96–96. doi:10.3406/linly.1955.7721.
  2. "Mythimna (Sablia) alopecuri". ukrbin.com. Retrieved 2022-12-01.